SWGoHCantina's Hero Ranking List

Add other aspects of the game, Cantina and Challenges?

Are these your personal rankings Kylven? It seems so, but wanted to be sure.

Nice site BTW - good reference.

"Heronmar;28993" wrote:

"Kylven;3669" wrote:
A very common question is, “Who should I invest credits, remotes, shards, and gear into first?” The answer really varies depending on which type of gameplay (damage, healfest, tanky, zombies) and synergies (Droids, Nightsisters, Ewoks, Jedi) you enjoy. Your fan favorite Heroes or who you unlocked may also be a factor despite actual in-game performance. In order to help you in developing a roadmap, I present this character ranking list. Keep in mind, most Heroes can synergize and perform well in a proper squad which makes this list very difficult to produce. You can’t just pull the top 5 and do well, you’ll need to assess abilities, stats, and synergies as well. Feel free to use this general assessment to get an idea of which characters are a worthwhile investment.

SWGoH Character Rankings

I look forward to the debates and the Community's assistance in fine tuning the Rankings.

@Kylven

Skimming the rankings I find some irregularities especially regarding availability. Now Biggs and Datcha have 100 (I assume that is because Hard Node+Shipment+Cantina) however IG86 also has those so I'm assuming he also should be 100?

Good catch, I counted it as hard mode battles rather than cantina mission. Fixed.

"JohnnySteelAlpha;28992" wrote:
Are these your personal rankings Kylven? It seems so, but wanted to be sure.

Nice site BTW - good reference.

For now yes, but I have 200 others giving me input...50 or so who have ranked 1st in pvp. So expect some tweaks. Feel free to weigh in yourself, if you're not in our LINE group.

I think Leia is a little underrated for GW. She attacks so fast not to mention being able to go stealth that she can survive better than many of my other DPS dealers.

Waiting for someone to 7 star Ugnaught and rip this list to shreds!

Let's be honest here...this ranking list is not for the player that spends time going through the abilities and stats to create a squad with ideal synergies and counters to opponents. This is a baseline list for the hundreds of Community members that post their character rosters and ask, "what should I invest in?" These are the folks looking for options without getting into the nitty gritty of the meta game and spending hours developing an edge against those on their server. They just want something that works and won't be a severe disappointment later in the game. Are the rankings based on opinion, of course. Does it provide value to that certain casual to mid level player, I believe so...and that is the target audience.

Definitely a few of the rankings seem off. I'd like to see the formulas within each category. Availability seems pretty straight forward. This also seemingly ignores things like how broad their synergies are and seems to put abilities as flat out most important.

For example, I get more out of JC than I ever would Daka. The Daka stuns would be a bit better in many cases but a frequently used heal from a survivable hero is worth more in practice.

@Kylven great start, really and information like this will help tons of people. I would just have to disagree / wait for clarification on some of the rankings that seem based solely on personal opinion. Thanks for the effort and I love the cantina site.

"Benr3600;29460" wrote:

"Kylven;29327" wrote:
Let's be honest here...this ranking list is not for the player that spends time going through the abilities and stats to create a squad with ideal synergies and counters to opponents. This is a baseline list for the hundreds of Community members that post their character rosters and ask, "what should I invest in?" These are the folks looking for options without getting into the nitty gritty of the meta game and spending hours developing an edge against those on their server. They just want something that works and won't be a severe disappointment later in the game. Are the rankings based on opinion, of course. Does it provide value to that certain casual to mid level player, I believe so...and that is the target audience.

This is for the player like me, and for that I am thankful :)

Okay, point taken. @Kylven you win the Internet for today.

If this is for newer players and folks uncertain where to turn in general, I'd move JC up quite a bit in the GW ranking. He should be easily on par with Lumi and he's better than her actually. At level 6 on his heal special he gets a -1 cooldown that takes it to just 2 and he has on his basic a chance to lower his cooldown by 1. So will often have a cooldown of just 1 effectively. That fast cooldown rate is invaluable. I can fire a 4200 heal as I wish without worrying about timing of his cooldowns. With how critical it is to get as far as you can through GW each day (credits, GW resources, mats, etc.) that's probably the most key part of the game you want to focus on especially early. JC can also be farmed in Cantina at a good rate and early - which gives you ability materials when you're farming him that way. Lumi is an easy farm in GW - IF you can get to and through GW.